Ukraine counts at least 500 dead from the flooding of the Kakhovka dam
The National Center for Resistance said in a statement that people have died because Moscow troops refused to evacuate those without Russian passports.
On Monday the Ukrainian National Center for Resistance reported that at least 500 people have died as a result of floods caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka dam, in a new sabotage maneuver that Russia and Ukraine have blamed on each other.
Ukrainian authorities reported last week that the water level at the New Kakhovka dam dropped by almost another meter in the last 24 hours to 9.35 meters in the Nikopol area. “According to preliminary information, more than 500 inhabitants have died as a result of the blowing up at the hands of the Russians of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant,” this institution says in a statement.
Recently, the Ukrainian hydropower company Ukrhidroenergo said in a statement that the average drainage rate on Saturday was 4-5 centimeters per hour, while the previous day it had been 5-6 centimeters per hour.
However, the National Center for Resistance said in a statement that people have died because Moscow troops refused to evacuate those without Russian passports. “Violating all norms of international humanitarian law and the most basic humanity,” the note said.
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky visited the southern Ukrainian region of Mikolayiv, where Ukrainian authorities reported the death of one person as a result of flooding caused by the destruction of a dam located in a Russian-occupied area in neighboring Kherson. It has not yet been determined who is responsible for this new sabotage to the country’s infrastructure, although Kiev does not rule out Moscow’s troops as the perpetrators.
Zelenski also explained that authorities are working to rescue more of those affected and are offering them drinking water and food supplies. “We have visited the main pumping station of the Inhulets River management channel, which is flooded due to the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant,” the Ukrainian leader said on Telegram over the past week.
With information from EFE